WG6 funding policies

Changing over on Open Access publishing a journal’s incomes and costs will consist of different sources than on print format. Government subsidy often plays an important role in financing a small scholarly journal. The regulations of funding have been based on printed journals. Funding may have been in direct relation to subscriptions of printed edition. How the regulations of funding bodies will react in the new situation? In WG 6 work will be done to locate and collect the funding regulations related to journal publishing from all Nordic governmental funding bodies.

Project members

The following institutions participate in WG6:
Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, Helsinki, Finland - leader
Lund University, Lund, Sweden - active
Museum Tusculanum Press,Copenhagen, Denmark - active
Linköping University, together with Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm), Sweden - passive